Milk Carton Haunted House Scene

Re-imagine a milk carton into this small world play scene!  These inexpensive, paper props are a great to incorporate Halloween into your child’s play and of course we love using recyclables for another purpose.  

Materials

• Printables: haunted house juice carton (Juice/ soy milk size) haunted house milk carton (milk carton size) 
  
• Cardstock
• Beverage carton (the shape of a orange juice carton or milk carton: there are 2 sizes of printables)
• Scissors
• Glue
• Additional items

We always find these items useful too:

Directions

• Wash your beverage carton throughly with soap and water and rinse it well, allowing it to dry overnight.

• Print your beverage carton house on thick paper such as cardstock and cut it out.

• Fold along the dotted lines.

• Glue the two pieces on the carton where the roof of the the haunted house lines up with the peaks of the milk carton near the top.

• Cut out the characters and props and glue the opposite duplicates back to back.  Do the same with the stands. Make a cut along the dotted lines on the characters and the stands and insert them into one another.  You could make paper items of your own to add.

• Set up your scene and add any things that you might like to enhance it (small toy figurines for trick or treaters etc.)

EXTENSION 

• If you want to add a door for your characters to go into your haunted house, take a baby wipe lid and place it on the door of your haunted house.

• Open the lid and trace around the inside.

• Paint your lid with acrylic paint if you like.

• Have an adult cut out the traced portion.

• Glue the lid down with a sturdy/ child-safe glue.

• Allow to dry.

• Voila!  A door to open your haunted house up!

If you like this idea, we also have:

A Beverage Carton Gingerbread House: http://make-it-your-own.com/beverage-carton-gingerbread-house-and-play-scene/

A Beverage Carton Paper Farm: http://make-it-your-own.com/paper-farm/

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Purpose

• Recognizing some of the symbols associated with various holidays and celebrations.
• Reusing recyclables.
• Encouraging play which incorporates communication, imagination and interaction!

Safety Notes

• We suggest that you use a tray and a smock to protect your clothing and surfaces.
• Use scissors with care and direct, adult supervision.
• Be sure to throughly WASH your beverage carton prior to use.Beads can be a choking hazard, therefore be sure to keep them out of the reach of children ages 0-3 years of age or those that tend to put things into their mouths.